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Man, Si Robertson* from Duck Dynasty really finds atheists threatening. A few months ago his brother fantasized about us being raped and murdered. Or, more to the point, about an atheist man watching his wife and daughters getting raped and...

Apparently, much of the internet was abuzz with excitement over this brand new effort at policing women’s speech: Telling them they say “just” too much. Ellen Peatry Leanse, writing for Business Insider, argued that using the...

Last week, I wrote about how, in the face of the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage, a lot of conservatives are becoming more open about the underlying argument behind all that hand-wringing about “traditional marriage”....

This op-ed by David Brooks titled “The Next Culture War“, which asks social conservatives to drop all the sex policing stuff and instead do something like feed the poor, is topping the New York Times most-viewed and most-emailed...

Right Wing Watch posted about Christian conservative activist Wayne Allyn Root—the same one who posited that Obama must have blackmailed Justice Roberts on the Obamacare decision—going on a radio show and positing that gay people are...

Rand Paul has a Time op-ed where he digs into his family’s roots as segregationist-types and argues that, rather than share marriage with the gays, it should be privatized. I debunk that argument at Slate, but didn’t have the space...

Well, I was going to embed this Spotify playlist to celebrate the announcement that same-sex marriage is now the law across the land. But eh, can still click it and play it: LGBT Anthems. It’s a mix of all sorts of music, from hip-hop to...

If you want illustrations of the concept of “gas-lighting” and how abusive men wield the stereotype that women are “crazy” in order to control, the internet has provided two whopping, holy-shit examples for your perusal...

Kudos on the art choice to whichever of my Raw Story colleagues who republished this piece from Medical Daily about a study, published in Social Psychology, that measured what most of us probably could tell you from experience: Men who feel...

Over the weekend, Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition had a “Road to Majority” event in D.C., where Republican candidates did the usual pandering to fundamentalist Christians on issues like gays and abortion. But this...

The New York Times reported this morning that Earl Holt—the leader of the white supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens, that apparently had so much influence over Dylann Roof—donated thousands of dollars to various...

Blame Atrios for flagging this hilariously self-deluded bit of wankery from Damon Linker at The Week taunting deliberately childless people. It’s clear that Linker wants to make the argument that childless people are being selfish for not...

It’s hard to know what to say in the wake of the Charleston church shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. There’s no words, really, that will make it make sense. It’s so terrible that even the usual...

James Gardner at the Slice at TPM has a really interesting piece up about this small group of Mormon men who identify as “same-sex oriented” but are married to women. Some of them—though interestingly, not all—oppose gay...

The gradual move of anti-vaccination from being a “liberal” thing to its more comfortable home being a right wing obsession got a big boost this week in California. California’s state legislature is liberal, very liberal, and...